Religion – Todd Bennetar

July 26, 2015

Necessary Help for Today’s Teens

The stories of folks looking for teenager addiction help are far from fading away. The statistics are more than alarming concerning abuse that is still heavily on the rise with our kids, the same kids that will be running the show in the next decade or two or three, if we have any left that are willing and capable of doing so. Now that is a scary thought indeed.

There are a good number of teen treatment program websites all over the Internet full of information and that are offering their help with today’s youth, along with help for a good amount of adults that are struggling with substance abuse as well. Dr. Drew’s Celebrity Rehab show, which is on VH1 I believe is helping people understand and bringing to light a lot of the problems that go along with addiction issues. I can only prey that people are watching and that he is able to help people, no matter what age they are, with this crisis that is affecting way too many people these days. The world has certainly gone crazy, something has to come about and soon folks.

April 24, 2015

60 minutes

The other night I was watching the television show 60 minutes, which is one of my favorite news magazine show. I was especially interested in the story about how a mixture of peanut butter, powdered milk, sugar and vitamins was created and named Plumpynut was created and is being used with great success to feed malnourished children in third world countries.

This was definitely a “feel good” story about how progress is being made to help the needy. I’m glad I stayed up to watch it. I hope that the use of Plumpynut spreads to other third world countries to help feed their starving children too.

November 20, 2014

Jewish Singles

Wanted to do something fun last night instead of sitting around the house bored. But I couldn’t find anyone who didn’t already have plans to go catch a movie with me. Even my friend Mack had plans – a date with someone new. He was very mysterious about the date and I thought he might be making the whole thing up!

But when I pressed him a bit, he admitted that she is someone he met on a chat for Jewish singles and this was their first date. His family is very religious and meeting Jewish Women is important to him but it can be a challenge locally. Turns out he has been talking to her online for a couple of weeks and finally made plans to meet up in person.

November 19, 2012

Dreaming about Mardi Gras Fun

One day I would love to go to New Orleans and attend the Mardi Gras festivities that I have always heard so much about. I have been lucky enough to have done some traveling in the past, but never made it to New Orleans, unfortunately. But one day I hope to find my way there and see what all the hoopla is about!

Costumes are not only limited to Halloween costumes any more, there are many other usages for dressing up these days. I have seen some pretty nice Mr & Mrs Santa Claus suites, along with many elf costumes as well, for the Christmas Holiday Season, and Mardi Cras costumes are becoming much more readily available with the Internet and all.

I’ve seen some pretty Halloween Costumes in my day, and the variety of Kids Halloween Costumes has become extremely specialized through out the years, what with all of the cartoon characters that have come out through out the years. I used to always want to dress up as Superman for Halloween and did for several years in a row. I remember dressing up in that costume through out the year, while my friends dressed in their super hero costumes as well, man did we have a blast with those inexpensive costumes that were sold back in the day.

June 7, 2012

The Traveling Ministers

I’m not big on going to church; but I am a spiritual person. I will say that prayer hasn’t helped me much, though. I’ve been getting annoyed at the frequent visits by certain religious groups that come knocking on my door wanting to convert me to their own religions. I don’t feel right pushing my religious beliefs on anyone else, and I really don’t appreciate other people trying to push their beliefs on mine.

Don’t get me wrong, the people are polite and passive enough, but just getting up to answer the door to find someone who wants to bear witness to me about their religion is a very aggravating thing. Although not as annoying as the people wearing orange sheets selling carnations at airports used to be! I do wish their religions would alter their ministry methods, I find their methods quite intrusive.

October 20, 2011

Plus Size Clothing

The holidays are so hard on us since our parents left this world over 3 years ago now and it is always a struggle to please everyone in the family trying to accommodate each others wants, needs and feelings. My eldest sister has basically taken on the task of having the Christmas family dinner at her place, while others have been taking turns holding the Thanksgiving dinner and festivities at their homes, which so far has worked out fairly well.

For all my of eldest sister’s hard work I always try and buy her a present that she really likes and needs and will utilize instead of just some junky gift that was purchased with little or no thought involved. So I have been looking at some nice plus size clothing online, trying to find her something that she will be able to wear to church on Sunday mornings. She takes a lot of pride in her hair, make-up and her clothes so I have to be careful to make sure that my choice is spot on, and returnable if needed.

July 10, 2008

Afghan villagers kill two Taliban

I was surprised to read on the Time website that some Afghan villagers actually stood up to the Taliban and killed a few of them. According to the story, the villagers had invited some aid workers to come to their village to dig a well. While the aid workers were in the process of digging the well, some Taliban militants came along and tried to abduct the aid workers. According to the culture of the people, you cannot invite guests to your village to help you with something and then allow the Taliban to come along and abduct and behead them, so the villagers defended the workers.

The skirmish resulted in two of the Taliban being killed and the rest of the militants ran off into the countryside. The government has sent additional security forces to the village to protect the village from retaliation from the Taliban. I wonder how long those security forces will be there. Seems to me that they’ll have to be there forever and a day because as soon as they leave, the Taliban will be right there slaughtering the entire village!